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IO Theater
Veteran improvisers reunite for big laughs.
Mercury Theater
A Grand Night For Singing.
Second City ETC
(Second City)
Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life, The.
Miss this at your own risk.
Accidental Death Of An Anarchist.
True to the spirit of anarchy.
A Red Orchid Theatre
Aliens, The.
Strawdog Theatre
Allotment Annie.
Strawdog Theatre
Allotment Annie.
A loving rendition of the WWII era and a healthy dose of demythologization.
American Girl Place
American Girls Revue, The.
Put stars in her eyes and a song in her heart-with American Girls.
Pheasant Run Theatre
(Fox Valley Repertory Youth Ensemble)
Art of Murder, The.
Chicago Arts District
Bad Arm: Confessions of a Dodgy Irish Dancer, The.
Taking about dance.
Chemically Imbalanced Theater
(Chemically Imbalanced Comedy)
Bad Review.
Don't hate bad reviews. Embrace them.
Baker's Wife, The.
Mary's Attic
(Bare Boned Theatre)
Bare Boned Cabaret.
New comedy, improv, sketch and cabaret every third Sunday of the month.
Athenaeum Theatre
Beautiful Thing.
Artistic Home
Eavesdrop on the bitching and dishing of a socialite to the stars.
Briar Street Theatre
Blue Man Group.
A silent but oddly endearing blue trio explore the humorous and bizarre.
Bank of America Theatre
Book Of Mormon, The .
Believe the hype.
Raven Theatre
Boy Gets Girl .
A bad date gets even worse in this anti-romantic comedy about stalking.
Boys Next Door, The.
Second City ETC
(Second City)
Brother, Can You Spare Some Change?.
Now that the election ho-ha is over, it's back to funny business as usual.
Ruth Page Center for the Arts
Bud, Not Buddy.
Cars and Quinceaneras.
Cars and Quinceaneras.
Caucasian Chalk Circle.
A Brecht classic with an original score.
The ComedySportz Theatre
College Improv Tournament Alumni League.
Raue Center For The Arts
TimeLine Theatre Company
(Timeline Theatre)
Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West.
Chemically Imbalanced Theater
Crash! Boom.
As opposed to all those silent sketch shows.
Jedlicka Performing Arts Center
Das Barbecu.
IO Theater
Deep Schwa.
Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
Chemically Imbalanced Theater
Who you calling dummy?
Town Hall Pub
Entertaining Julia.
It's free, it's funny and it's full of spastic performers.
Playground Theater
Extended Play.
Faith Healer.
Actors Gymnasium
Fall Youth Circus.
The Playground Theater
(Koleno, the Panty Filers, and Hair Club for Men)
Free for All, The.
Nothing's for free eh?
Funny Story Show, The.
Angel Island
(Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company)
Glass Menagerie, The.
An American classic, viewed through a grimy glass.
College of DuPage McAnich Arts Center
Grand Derangement!.
Step dancers rock out to an explosion of lights and sound.
Building Stage
(Building Stage)
Hänsel und Gretel.
Into the woods...
Stage 773
(Shattered Globe Theatre)
Happy Now?.
IO Theater
Harold, The.
IO's signature, long-form improv piece.
Millennium Park
The John Hancock Tower is hilarious.
Stage 773
(Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago)
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill.
A Musical Biography of a Legend
the side project
Lady M.
Don't plot for a crown with crazy.
Royal George Theatre Center
Late Nite Catechism.
Enroll in a class of Sister's sharp religious humor.
Links Hall
Laughing from the Other Side of Your Face.
Which side is that?
Leaves, Trees, Forest.
Writers' Theatre (Tudor Court)
(Writers' Theatre)
Letters, The.
Who will claim the upper hand?
Dream Theatre
Lights Out, Everybody - a tribute in Horror to Arch Oboler.
Steep Theatre
Chopin Theatre
Magnificents, The.
Copley Theatre
(TOC Productions)
Menopause the Musical.
Hot flashes, memory loss and chocolate binges galore.
Apollo Theater
Million Dollar Quartet.
Four famous musicians team up and rock out.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker.
Steppenwolf Theatre
Motherf**ker with the Hat, The.
A monumentally enjoyable theatre experience.
Chief O'Neill's
(Prop Theatre)
Music Mad.
Lifeline Theatre
Mystery of the Pirate Ghost.
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
New Play Festival .
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
New Play Festival.
Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre
Now and Forever, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
Oral Histories.
Goodman Theatre
(Goodman Theatre)
Other Desert Cities.
A play with great potential doesn't quite gel.
Second City ETC
(Second City)
Pratfall of Civilization.
"Pratfall of Civilization" takes aim at America and hits its mark (mostly).
Stage Left Theatre
(The Mill)
Private Lives of Eskimos, The.
Ever wonder about life after anti-depressants?
Theater Wit
Celebrate this classic satire's 100th birthday with the party it deserves.
Noble Horse Theatre
A dinner performance spectacular, featuring dancing white stallions.
Building Stage
Ring of the Niebelung, The.
Pack a lunch.
Greenhouse Theater Center
Royal Hunt of the Sun, The.
Stage 773
Royal Jelly.
Royal George Theatre Center
Saints & Sinners.
Nun of that.
Mercury Theater
Screwtape Letters, The .
C.S. Lewis writes Christian satire.
Shits & Giggles.
This gender-queer cabaret runs the first Sunday of every month.
Greenhouse Theater Center
Side Effects May Include.
Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace
Singin in the Rain.
Well, that was delightful!
Chicago Dramatists
(Chicago Dramatists)
Chicago Dramatists
(Chicago Dramatists)
Studio L'Amour
Speakeasy Sunday.
Bring sin into your Sunday.
Second City ETC
(Second City)
Studs Terkel's Not Working.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
(Signal Ensemble Theatre)
Athenaeum Theatre
(Greasy Joan & Co.)
Mystical, haunting and humorous adaptation.
the side project
Blood and sugar.
Royal George Theatre Center
Sunday School Cinema.
The ruler-wielding nun sets her sights on Hollywood.
Second City
(Second City)
Taming of the Flu.
It's a comedy epidemic.
Fine Arts Building
(Moving Dock Theatre Company)
Tea with the Ladies of the Harvard College Observatory.
Tea and astronomy.
(Barrel of Monkeys)
That's Weird, Grandma.
A boisterous group serves up kids' work for adults.
The Spot
(New Millennium Theatre Company)
The Flaming Dames in 'Torch'.
Usually the Dames take it off. But not this time.
Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theatre)
The Message Is In The Music (God Is A Black Man Named Ricky).
Are you there, Ricky?
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
Theres A Girl In My Soup.
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
There's A Girl In My Soup.
Three Viewings.
Chicago Improv
Tommy Davidson.
Funny guy.
Tommy Gun's Garage
Tommy Guns Garage.
I am the twenties, hear me roar.
Piper's Alley
Tony 'N' Tina's Wedding.
You're invited to this loud, Italian-style wedding.
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.
30 wacky/heart-breaking/funny/political plays in 60 minutes.
Village Theatre Guild
Ruth Page Center for the Arts
Votes For Women! .
Sister suffragettes!
The Greenhouse Theatre Center
(Circle Theatre)
When the Rain Stops Falling.
Northlight Theatre
Whipping Man, The.
Comedy Shrine Theater
(Comedy Shrine)
Whose Line?.
The classic t.v. show comes to life...as improv.
eta Creative Arts Foundation
Wine In The Wilderness.
Greenhouse Theater Center
Zulu Fits .
Twists and turns.
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Some charter schools dodge state's closure law
The Columbus Dispatch - January 09, 2013 5:01 PM
A report released today found that 7 of the 20 tax-funded charter schools ordered by the state to close because their students are failing are still operating in the same location under new names and with many of the same teachers and staff.
Policy Matter Ohio, a left-leaning research group based in Cleveland, found an eighth school avoided Ohio's mandatory closure law by shutting down and reopening under a new name.
The schools are located in Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Warren and Youngstown. Six are run by for-profit management companies - the Leona Group, Mosaiaca Education and White Hat Management. One is run by the nonprofit Summit Academies, and the last is independently operated.
A 2008 state law requires the closure of chronically failing charter schools.
The Policy Matters report, Avoiding Accountability, is available at www.policymattersohio.org


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SIBA 2011 Southern Indie Book Awards
The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance has announced the finalists for the 2011 Southern Indie Book Awards, which recognize "the books from last year that Southern Indie Booksellers especially loved, the ones they most enjoyed putting into the hands of their customers with the earnest, heartfelt and ever hopeful words 'You've got to read this.' "
Winners will be announced in July and will be celebrated at SIBA's trade show in Charleston, S.C., September 17-19.
Two titles of the Fiction short list are Reading Group Choices selections!
Bloodroot by Amy Greene
Burning Bright by Ron Rash
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
On Folly Beach by Karen White
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
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Welcome to PIPVTR!
Countering Political Violence and Terrorism Through Peace Research
New Office Address
106 Sterten Place Condominium, 116 Maginhawa Street, Teachers Village East, Diliman, Quezon City 1101, Philippines Telefax: +632 4333870
The PIPVTR is an independent, non-stock, non-profit, non-governmental research organization officially registered at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on 29 November 2007 as Philippine Institute for Political Violence and Terrorism Research. It was first conceptualized in September 2005 by a group of experts, academics and practitioners who see the need to establish a center in the Philippines dedicated to the study of political violence and terrorism and their implications for peace and security. The PIPVTR was officially launched on 6 March 2008 at the Hotel Intercontinental Manila by Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, the Chairman of the Philippine Anti-Terrorism Council. Ermita described the PIPVTR as the country's "pioneering think tank on terrorism research and studies".
The PIPVTR is renamed as PHILIPPINE INSTITUTE FOR PEACE, VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM RESEARCH in order to bring peace studies into political violence and terrorism research. SEC approved this new name on 10 August 2010. To broaden the research agenda of the Institute in the light of post-9/11 security challenges that have tremendous impacts on peace, violence and terrorism issues, two centers have been created: the Center for Intelligence and National Security Studies (CINSS) and the Center for Transnational Crimes Research and Non-Traditional Security Studies (CTCNTS).
PIPVTR does not receive government funding. But PIPVTR welcomes private contributions to support our research work. Please contact us if you are willing to support us and be our partners in our missions. Below is the location map of the PIPVTR Office.
Renewed Tensions and Continuing Maritime Security Dilemma in the South China Sea: Challenges in Philipine Foreign, Defense and Security Policy
In the light of the recent incidents involving China and the Philippines in the Reed Bank, which is one of the contested areas in the South China Sea, the Center for Political and Democratic Reforms, Inc., (CPDRI) will hold a round table discussion on the above topic on March 17, 2-5 PM at the Asian Institute of Tourism (AIT), Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City. Prof. Rommel C. Banlaoi, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism (PIPVTR) will be the main resource speaker. For more information about the roundtable discussion, please email Mr. Dennis Lalata at firstname.lastname@example.com.
PIPVTR To Hold Three Round Table Discussions This March
The Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research (PIPVTR) is pleased to announce the holding of three round table discussions (RTD) this March as follows:
March 11, 2011 on "Mainstreaming Indigenous Peoples' Issues and Concerns in the National Agenda", 2-7PM, Electronic Library, 2nd Floor, Asian Institute of Management Conference Center, Makati City. Co-organized by the Institute of Autonomy and Governance and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
March 28, 2011 on "Understanding Violent Religious Radicalization: A Multidisciplinary Perspective", 2-5PM, PIPVTR Seminar Room, 7th Floor, Sterten Place Condominuim, 116 Maginhawa Street, Teachers Village East, Quezon City. Co-organized by the Center for Excellence on National Security (CENS) of the S. Rajaratnam School of Internatioal Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
March 30, 2011 on "Youth and Terrorism", 2-5 PM PIPVTR Seminar Room, 7th Floor, Sterten Place Condominuim, 116 Maginhawa Street, Teachers Village East, Quezon City. Co-organized by the Southeast Asia Regional Centre for Counter-Terrorism (SEARCCT), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
For further information about these three events, please contact Rowena at 4333870 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Terrorism: Threat to Tourism and Public Safety?
The Center for Political and Democratic Reform, Inc (CPDRI), the Asian Institute of Tourism (AIT) and the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research (PIPVTR) organized a symposium entitled "TERRORISM…THREATS TO TOURISM AND PUBLIC SAFETY?" on February 22, 2011, Tuesday, 2-5 PM at the Seminar Room of the Asian Institute of Tourism, Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City.
PDIR RODOLFO "BOOGIE" MENDOZA, JR (ret), PIPVTR President, was the main speaker who talked on the topic, "Updates on Current Terrorist Threats in the Philippines". Retired Army General Jaime Delos Santos (President of Tourism Foundation), Retired Police General Felizardo Serapio Jr (Executive Director of the Philippine Center on Transnational Crimes) and Dr. Clarita Carlos (President of the CPDRI) served as discussants on the implications of terrorism on tourism and public safety. Please access Paper Series of this website for a copy of Mendoza's presentation.
First International Conference on the Security Environment of East Asian Seas
To discuss the current and evolving maritime security environment in East Asia Seas, the Ocean Policy Research Foundation (OPRF) based in Tokyo, Japan organized the First International Conference on the Security Environment of East Asian Seas at the Hotel New Otani, Tokyo on 16-17 February 2011. At least 15 foreign experts and 40 Japanese experts attended the said conference. The Center for Intelligence and National Security Studies (CINSS) of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research (PIPVTR) presented a paper on "Current Maritime Security Environment on East and South China Seas."
Terror Threat: The Government Must Consult Not Insult
Despite the serious travel advisories from 7 foreign embassies and warning from a local terrorism think-tank that terrorist threats in the Philippines, particularly in Metro Manila, were imminent, the Philippine government downplayed those advisories and questioned the credibility of a think-tank to make warning. The military establishment even denied the clear and present danger of terrorist threat in the city, arguing that the information from which the travel advisories was based was raw and not yet validated. While the government and the military may have their own reasons for denying the threat, the Makati bus bombing last January 25 demonstrated the terrorist threat was not imagined but real. Read more here. or here.(Photo source here)
Internal Peace and Security Plan Released
As a paradigm shift in countering insurgency and terrorism in the Philippines, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) just released its new military campaign plan dubbed as OPLAN Bayanihan or the Internal Peace and Security Plan (IPSP). This new military plan recognizes the structural factors that bring armed insurgency. Thus, AFP claims that solving the the insurgency problem can not be done by the military alone. Countering insurgency and terrorism needs the support of all stakeholders of peace and security in the country. As part of PIPVTR's effort to help AFP in disseminating the said plan, a full copy is available for free download in the Paper Series of this website.
Asian Transnational Security Challenges: Emerging Trends, Regional Visions
The Council for Asian Transnational Threat Research (CATR) just published the book, Asian Transnational Security Challenges: Emerging Trends, Regional Visions. The book provides a rigorous country-by-country analysis of the most important emerging non-traditional and transnational security threats in Asia over the coming five to ten-year horizon. The book was launched on 29 October 2010 at Dusit Thani Manila on the occassion of the International Forum on Asia Pacific Security organized by the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research (PIPVTR) in cooperation with CATR, Asia Pacific Security Forum and the Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA). A copy of this book is available free for paying participants at the International Forum. To claim your complimentary copy, please call +632 4333870. Other participants can get their free electronic copy at the Paper Series of PIPVTR Website.
Waging Peace Conference 2010
Organized by the Gazton P. Ortigas Peace Instiute with the support of the International Alert and the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, the Waging Peace Conference 2010 was held at Bayview Hotel, Manila on 7-8 December 2010 with a theme, "Seize the Opportune Moment: Work for Peace Now!". PIPVTR participated in the said conference as a recognized think-tank involved in peace research. It was during the conference when the organizers recognized the third party facilitators to the peace processes with the National Democratic Front (NDF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Ambassadors Knut Solem and Dato Seri Ibrahim Saad accepted the recognition on the behalf of the Norwegian and Malaysian governments, respectively.
Directions and Challenges of Philippines Security Relations with China and the United States
The Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research (PIPVTR) organized a Round Table Discussion (RTD) on "Directions and Challenges of Philippine Security Relations with China and the United States" on 19 November 2010, 2:00-5:00 PM at the PIPVTR Conference Room. Prof. Benito Lim of Ateneo de Manila University and Mr. Carl Baker of Pacific Forum CSIS based in Honolulu, Hawaii were resource speakers. See Paper Series of this website to download a free copy of their presentations.
Second International Forum on International Law and Fishery Issues, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Organized by the Taiwan Society of International Law, PIPVTR attended the Second International Forum on International Law and Fishery Issues held on 13-14 November 2010 at Kaohsiung, Taiwan. In this international forum, Prof. Rommel Banlaoi presented a paper on Renewed Security Tensions in the South China Sea and its implications for maritime security in Southeast Asia and Philippines-Taiwan security relations.
PIPVTR Attends Second International Workshop on the South China Sea in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
The Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research (PIPVTR) attended the Second International Workshop on the South China Sea held at the Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on 11-12 November 2010 with a theme "Cooperation for Regional Security and Development". Organized by the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam and Vietnam Lawyer's Association, the workshop was attended by at least 70 international scholars and government experts from various countries. Ms. Amparo Pamela H. Fabe, Senior Fellow, represented PIPVTR in the said event.
International Forum on Asia Pacific Security: Country Perspectives
On the occassion of the third year founding anniversary of the Philippine Institute fo Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research (PIPVTR) and the 10th Bi-Annual International Conference of the Council for Asian Transtional Threat Research (CATR), the International Forum on Asia Pacific Security: Country Perspectives was held at Dusit Thani Hotel, Makati City on October 29, 2010. The event was co-organized by the PIPVTR, CATR, Institute for Defense Analyses and the Asia Pacific Security Forum.
The 10th Bi-Annual International Conference of the Council for Asian Transnational Threat Research (CATR)
PIPVTR hosted the 10th Bi-Annual Conference of the Council for Asian Transnational Threat Research (CATR) at the New World Hotel, Makati CIty on October 26-28. Thirty-five internationally renown foreign experts from Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United States attended. CATR is currently being chaired by Rommel Banlaoi, Executive Director of PIPVTR.
PIPVTR Co-Convenes ANCORS Workshop Focusing on Southern Philippines Security and Stability
Political, economic, maritime and human security experts on the Southern Philippines are attending a two-day Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) workshop at the Innovation Campus. Dean of UOW's Faculty of Law, Professor Luke McNamara, officially welcomed delegates to the workshop which is being conducted on 28 and 29 September. Participants from the Philippines and Australia are taking part in the workshop entitled 'Security and Stability in the Southern Philippines: Implications for Australia and the Region'.
Day one of the conference involves an overview of domestic and regional concerns (session 1), territorial and boundary issues (session 2); and maritime security in the Southern Philippines (session 3). Day two features discussion on the economic and environmental security in the Southern Philippines (session 4); and human security in the Southern Philippines (session 5). Among the speakers are the Attorney Rodel Cruz, former Undersecretary of Defence (Philippines) and President of the Asia Pacific Security Forum; Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research, Professor Rommel Banlaoi; Commander Ronnie Gil Gavan from the Philippine Coast Guard; and Professor Harry Roque, Professor of Law with the University of the Philippines. Read more here.
PNOY's Policy on the Peace Process:What is New?
To celebrate the National Peace Conscousness Month and the International Day of Peace, the PIPVTR held a Roundtable Discussion on "PNOY's Policy on the Peace Process: What is New?" on 22 September 2010 at the Sterten Place Condominium, Quezon City. Father Eliseo Mercado, Jr., a peace advocate and Executive Director of the Institute for Autonomy and Governance; and, Dr. Clarita R. Carlos, Professor of Political Science at the University of the Philippines, were resource speakers. Their papers are uploaded in the Paper Series of this website. The RTD was attended by former Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (PAPP), Anabelle Abaya, Assistant Secretary Romie Halabaso of OPAPP (Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process), Ms. Karen Tanada, Executive Director of Gaston Z. Ortigas Peace Institute, Mr. Ramon Casiple, Executive Director of the Institute for Electoral and Political Reforms, and Ms. Amina Rasul, co-convenor of the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy, among many others.


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This month marks twenty years since the disappearance of Irish American Annie McCarrick while she was living abroad in Dublin, Ireland. Her family as well as authorities are still at a loss regarding the mysterious disappearance.
The Irish Examiner reports on the sense of loss felt by McCarrick's remaining family in the US, as well as the equal amount of unfinished business the initial lead on the investigation, Garda Assistant Commissioner Martin Donnellan, feels.
"Girls started to disappear in this country around that time," Donnellan told John Murray on RTÉ radio on Wednesday.
Donnellan indicated that he believed McCarrick's disappearance was not an isolated incident, and was probably connected to a string of murders of other young women in Leinster between 1993 and 1998.
Donnellan explained, "There was Deirdre Jacob, only 18, who disappeared in July of 1998. She had gone to the post office in Newbridge and we had CCTV footage of her there. She walked home in broad daylight, was seen in various places, and then just disappeared. It was obvious that she had been snatched off the street."
"Then there was Jo-Jo Dullard, who went missing in 1995, also in mysterious circumstances. Added to that is the disappearance of Ciara Breen in Dundalk, Fiona Pender in Tullamore, and Fiona Sinnot in Wexford."
Donnellan said he believed at least three of the mysterious cases were connected. "All three were on their own when they disappeared," he said.
"There was never a trace of clothes found, which is unusual. In each case, the clothing the girls were wearing was very distinctive but we never came across a single item. They were each probably bundled into a car or van."
Between 1992 and 1998 seven women disappeared, which, according to Donnellan, indicates that there may be one person responsible for at least some of them.
"It means that he [the culprit] must have been in jail or had left the country after that," said Donnellan.
McCarrick, a native of Long Island in New York, was 26 years old when she disappeared. She had studied abroad in Ireland and had returned to live and work there while she researched her family's Irish roots.
McCarrick was sharing an apartment with two Irish girls in Sandymount, Dublin when she went missing. The American girl had been looking forward to a visit from her mother Nancy who was due to arrive just a few days after her disappearance.
On Friday, March 26, 1993, McCarrick didn't show up to work when she was expected to be collecting wages.
The following day, her friends grew concerned when they arrived at her apartment for a previously arranged dinner party, but there was no sign of McCarrick.
McCarrick's late father, John, had said he knew something was wrong immediately when Annie's friends in Dublin phoned back to New York saying they didn't know where Annie was.
"She was always reaching out and touching someone... She would never have gone a day without talking to someone… We were very, very concerned," her father told ABC News in America.
Former Garda Commissioner Donnellan also remembers the immediate mystery that surrounded the case. "I was off at the weekend on that Friday and Saturday, and I got a call from Irishtown station that a girl had disappeared in very mysterious circumstances."
"She was staying in a flat near Sandymount with two other girls. They were going to their homes in Cork so she was at a loose end and phoned a friend to go for a walk in Enniskerry, but her friend couldn't go so she went off alone."
McCarrick was reportedly seen and videoed on CCTV while at both an AIB and her local grocery store. After that, she took a bus to Ranelagh, and then to Enniskerry.
The final confirmed sighting of McCarrick came from a work colleague who saw her in a restaurant in Donnybrook. One person came forward to say they thought they had served her in the post office in Enniskerry, although this was never confirmed.
Another unconfirmed sighting of McCarrick was at Johnnie Fox's pub in the Dublin mountains. Sam Doran, a doorman at the pub, came forward after his colleague Paul O'Reilly pointed out McCarrick's picture in the newspapers. Doran said who he believed to be McCarrick had come to the door of the 'Hooley Room,' without realizing there was a cover charge.
Doran said that the woman was accompanied by a man wearing a wax jacket who paid for her cover and paid for her throughout the evening.
McCarrick was never seen leaving the pub, and the man she was reportedly with never came forward.
Earlier this month, a magazine based in Dublin tauted that they may have more information on the Annie McCarrick disappearance, but the notion was quickly dismissed by gardai.
Larry Murphy, a convicted rapist from Co Wicklow, remains a prime suspect in Annie McCarrick's disappearance. Murphy was jailed for 15 years for the abduction, rape and attempted murder of a woman in February 2000. He was released in 2010 and is now believed to be living in the Netherlands.
To this day, Donnellan remains perplexed by McCarrick's unanswered disappearance: "We had always hoped that we would get the right call. It is so tragic. If people went missing in the US, you would not be surprised, but not in the island of saints and scholars."
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This convention has been one of mixed emotions. Everyone seems to have taken in the historical significance of this next week. There are the most elevating moments of optimism and daunting displays of cynicism.
Such contradictions are intrinsic to a character like Barack Obama. As Senator Ted Kennedy walked onto the stage last night to a standing ovation and wave of blue "Kennedy" signs, I can't describe the buzz in that arena fairly. To me, it represented the final link from Kennedy to Obama, over 40 years in the making.
"We can meet these challenges with Barack Obama," the 76-year old senator declared to the Pepsi Center crowd, exultantly chanting "KEN-NE-DY." "Yes we can, and finally, yes we will."
It was easily the most emotionally charged moment of the night. A Kennedy, recently diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, who has carried his brothers' legacy for over four decades, at last able to pass on the burden of carrying the message of hope.
"And this November the torch will be passed again to a new generation of Americans," he said, "and so with Barack Obama and for you and for me, our country will be committed to his cause. The work begins anew. The hope rises again. And the dream lives on."
After Kennedy, from our nosebleed seats, Gus and I discussed whether Kennedy had stolen the show. I can speak to the excitement in that room as something similar to being live at a professional sporting event. You're involved, and when a star like Kennedy takes the stage, you're enveloped by the excitement. It instills passions and feelings in you that can't be replicated in any other setting.
This sense has spread throughout Denver. Late last night, Gus and I decided to wander the 16th Street Mall with my video camera to try and capture some of the late-night buzz. We spoke to bums and delegates, and across the board, these people had been taken in by this sensation of optimism and hope.
But with the Kennedys' heritage of hope also comes their legacy of tragedy. Two kids ran past Gus and me last night, and in a passing moment Gus asked them what they thought of Obama. They kept running, calling back, "I hate him. And you know why? He's just gonna get sniped in two years anyway, idiot."
It's the tragic opposite of hope, and it's very real. Last night, after coming back from the convention, Gus, Anne and I were sitting out on our balcony overlooking the corner of 16th and Blake. Flashing police lights and a barking dog had been carrying on without our noticing. After a while our neighbor came out to join us.
"It's a bomb threat," he said pointing down to the street. Three or four police cars had marked off a perimeter, with a huge Boulder County Bomb Squad truck on the side of the street. The dog was searching for explosives.
Anne and I went down to the street to snap some photos. Eventually the scene cleared, and the police cars pulled away. Meanwhile, my dad was relaying an article on cbs4denver.com to Gus about a foiled attempt by four men to snipe Obama during his speech Thursday at Invesco. For whatever reason the story hasn't blown up yet.
Most people here are too excited by the spirit of hope to worry too much about any impending danger. Or maybe they're just all too aware of the danger that lingers in every second of this campaign. Maybe it's just too much to worry about one foiled attempt to destroy the hope they've waited so long to feel again.


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Richard Ambrose at Paradise Cove in Malibu. Photo by Steve Lee.
UCLA Today's Alison Hewitt talked with Professor Ambrose about what motivates him, his love of scuba diving and the troubles he sees ahead for the California coast.
You spend all your time thinking about the ocean and the coast. Can you still enjoy a day at the beach, or does your work-brain switch on in the middle of vacation?
Actually, if I just go to a sandy beach, that's a habitat I don't do much work in. I can just enjoy the waves and the sand. But really, thinking about all these things — wetlands, kelp beds, rocky intertidal zones — that is recreation for me. In fact, if I travel to new places, I often try to see my usual habitats in new places, like the East Coast and Gulf Coast. Their wetlands, especially, are very different compared to California.
I really enjoy the science and the research, but another part of what keeps me motivated is recognizing that I can have a meaningful impact on how natural resources are managed and protected. My research has a practical application.
At the UCs (he earned a B.S. at UC Irvine in 1975, and his Ph.D. at UCLA in 1982), you did your undergraduate and graduate work in field ecology and octopus ecology. What made you switch to the preservation of tide pools, wetlands, kelp beds and the like?
I had a lot of different things I was interested in, but especially the ocean. Back then, there weren't many people concerned with conservation, but the issue was beginning to grow. When I started my post-doc at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, my department head was involved in managing fisheries, and I became more involved in marine conservation issues. Now my research is mostly focused on developing the science that resource managers need so they can decide the best ways to preserve resources, and on working with coastal agencies on preservation.
You've worked with the California Coastal Commission, the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission, the state Water Resources Control Board, the U.S. EPA, and lots of other local, state and federal agencies. Now you're working on the state's Ocean Protection Council (OPC) as a co-chair of its Science Advisory Team. What's your role there?
The OPC is trying to deal with coastal problems in a comprehensive way. For many agencies, they just look at their own little piece. OPC looks at the big picture. The science team is bringing attention to problems that scientists think are really important right now, and also looking ahead to the important problems.
What are some of the water problems scientists foresee?
We already know about problems that have to do with pollution, especially from runoff. Runoff is mostly water that runs off our streets and lawns, and contains pesticides and metals. But now there's a whole new class of contaminants that people haven't paid much attention to: endocrine disruptors, which act like hormones, and can affect marine life very differently from other pollutants.
Another problem is climate change. It will cause ocean acidification, and as the pH changes, it can have profound effects across the whole food web in ways we don't fully understand yet. Sea level rise is another obvious result of climate change, and that would impact not just people living near the coast, but habitats near the coast — tide pools, wetlands and coastal bluffs. In some places, tide pools will disappear, and wetlands can't migrate inland they way they would once upon a time, because people have built condos and offices there.
At Medea Creek in Simi Valley. Photo by Reed Hutchinson.
In many places, wetlands serve as a filter to reduce pollutants before they reached the ocean, and they used to do so more effectively for California, but we've destroyed so many wetlands. They're also very productive habitats. They capture a lot of energy from the sun, which they then pass on to the animals living there and to animals in other habitats. Wetlands also serve as nurseries for many fish, and they're habitats for a lot of animals we care about. The wetlands are very important stopovers for some migrating shore birds or water fowl, and they're important habitats for many endangered species.
What are some of the local wetlands you've worked on, and how do you help restore them?
I co-chaired the scientific committee planning restoration for the Ballona Wetlands. I've done a lot of work at Malibu Lagoon, and a restoration project at Ormond Beach, just up the coast from Point Mugu. I've worked at the Carpenteria Salt Marsh, a very nice wetland system, and I've also done a lot of work at Mugu Lagoon up near Oxnard, including a lot of restoration and reviewing its success.
At places like Mugu Lagoon, a 25-acre salt marsh, I helped design the restoration project. It was getting contaminated by sewage. UCLA Professor Rick Vance and I figured out how the sewage could be safely integrated into the salt marsh at low concentrations, with certain soils and certain plants, without damage. Then we designed it, deciding on things like elevations. At high tide, the water has to come in and cover the right parts and still be able to sweep back out. We worked on the elevations, the locations of tidal creeks and the sediment mix. This was about eight years ago, and it's doing its wetland thing now. It looks like a wetland. It still needs time to develop, but it's definitely recovering. On other projects, I've also been involved in bringing in the right mix of plants.
What's the state of wetland preservation in the U.S. and California?
We've lost about half of the wetlands in the nations, but in California we've lost 91 percent of our wetlands, the highest fraction of any state. I research whether mitigation projects are working, and the answer is basically — not very well. That's why I'm working with so many agencies. I'm trying to provide them with information so they'll know how they can improve the process. One of the interesting finds I had while working on a state project was that mitigation projects assigned to companies or developers often weren't working very well, and it wasn't because they weren't following directions — they were doing exactly what these agencies told them to do. So that tells us we need to develop better instructions, which I'm helping the agencies do.
Of all the habitats you study, do you have a favorite?
It's like being asked to choose who's your favorite child! I think the rocky intertidal is my favorite because the ocean waves are right there, and the tide pool species living there are so precisely, uniquely suited for that habitat. They have to be exposed to air for hours at a time and also spend time underwater, and be strong enough to stand up to crashing waves.
Ambrose explores a kelp bed off Anacapa Island, one of the Channel Islands off the coast of Ventura. Photo by Joe Wible.
Scuba was part of your dissertation? That's kind of awesome.
And I still use it sometimes for research. I do a lot of diving off Anacapa Island, one of the Channel Islands off the coast of Ventura. My team's been looking at a place that used to be a kelp bed there but then became an urchin barrens. When sea urchins get too abundant, they eat all the giant kelp and graze away all the algae. We expected a cycle, that the kelp would come back. But the kelp has been gone since 1985. We're interested in how that happened.
We're also looking at an area on the other side of the island that used to be an eelgrass bed — that's a sea grass. Eelgrass beds are like wetlands, in a way. They're very productive. They act as nurseries and support a lot of life. Again, the urchins grazed it all away and it never came back. But there, we've transplanted some [eelgrass] from Santa Cruz Island, and that's been successful.
What's an easy thing people should know about water resource preservation that isn't widely recognized?
The biggest message is that people don't recognize the connection between what they do where they live, and how their activities affect the ocean. If you live in Westwood or Culver City, you're not thinking your actions directly impact the ocean, but they do — that's where the trash and sediment that washes into the oceans comes from. Litter and plastic trash washes in from miles away from the coast. People need to think about how connected they are to the ocean.


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In the early 2G jailbreak/unlock days there was more than one jb/unlock method available, some better for the long term than others. I'd like to avoid revisiting the 2G "revirginizing" drama as we progress to later firmwares. :P
George and DevTeam used different exploits on the same vulnerability. I'd appreciate any help clarifying the differences between their Purplera1n and Redsn0w methods because I'm techno-speak challenged and sometimes their tech-talk goes right over my head.
Thank you for any experience and knowledge you can share!
1. Planetbeing wrote that Purplera1n has problems.
"all props to @geohot for coming up with this in short order (tho we wanted to wait), but his jb tarbombs fs (among other problems)"
a. Can someone please explain what "tarbombs fs" means?
b. What are the other problems?
c. Will these problems create issues for later firmware JBs?
2. A couple DevTeam members wrote about kernel patch issues in Purplera1n. Have these been fixed in later versions?
3. Does the Purplera1n JB contact Apple's servers, or is that only the ECID# trick?
4. Have I missed something, or is the DevTeam not updating Pwnage for the 3GS?
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replaces QwkPwn
Con - post-jailbreak problems: push notification, battery drain, wi-fi
Pro - QwkPwn had excellent track record as new firmwares came out
Con - no history as firmware is updated
Pro - no post-jailbreak problems?
Con - doesn't work on 3GS yet?
Pro - customize firmware, install custom images
Pro - no post-jailbreak problems on most recent firmwares
Pro - excellent track record as new firmwares come out


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HR MAGAZINE · August 2007 Vol. 52, No. 8 Table of Contents
COVER STORY Corporate Social Responsibility Pays Off. Corporate social responsibility initiatives do more than create social good. They attract, retain and inspire employees.Adrienne Fox
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS Helping Employees Step Up. HR's role in effective internal promotions starts with career counseling and runs through onboarding.Kathryn TylerSpecial Report on BenefitsWhen OBs Are Scarce. As more obstetricians leave the profession, HR has to get creative to help pregnant employees with a basic health service.Susan J. WellsWhat's in Your Summary Plan Description? Inadequate or ambiguous summary plan descriptions can leave employers open to liability. What's in your document?Betty SosninTaking Ownership. Employee stock ownership plans are getting renewed interest as many baby boomer business owners near retirement.Joanne SammerHR AGENDA: HR MANAGEMENTUplifting Employees. Addressing employee morale problems takes sincerity, common sense and effective communications.Nancy Hatch WoodwardHR AGENDA: RELOCATIONPartners on the Move. To sweeten employee relocations, offer to pay for nonspouse partners as well.Lin Grensing-PophalCOLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS(Members Only)
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According to a woman who said she helped rescue the children from an overturned white Ford Explorer, they appeared to be a boy of about age 2, a girl of about age 4 and a girl age 6-7.
One of the children had been ejected from the Ford, according to another witness, though it wasn't clear which child.
The second vehicle involved, a four-door silver Nissan Maxima, was at rest alongside the median a short distance south of the intersection, its front end crumpled and rear damaged. It had been traveling south; the Ford had been traveling west, witnesses said.
No one was available at Anniston Police Department, Regional Medical Center or Stringfellow Memorial Hospital to answer questions about the accident, the total number of victims or their conditions.
The woman who assisted, Katherine Dickerson of Anniston, showed a burned spot on her hand where it had touched the hot muffler of the Explorer while she labored to help.
"I'll do it any day to save a baby," she said.
Dickerson was one of three at the scene who are said to have helped turn the Explorer upright following its collision with the Maxima. She reported the small boy and one of the girls was pinned under the SUV. She said the vehicle contained a total of five persons — two women and the three children.
Reports at the scene were that the third child was ejected from the vehicle.
"When the car flipped the first time, the little baby flipped out," said Danterius Kelly of Anniston. "The other two were up under the car." Kelly said he was in a vehicle near the intersection when the accident occurred around 8 p.m.
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- Screening and Treatment to Reduce the Risk and Incidence of Cervical Cancer
This fact sheet provides an overview of PATH's work to prevent cervical cancer in Vietnam through the piloting of a "screen and treat" model in three provinces.
Publication date: May 2011
Region: Asia
- Sedibeng District Profile: Supporting Enhanced Child Health Services
This document describes the Window of Opportunity project's efforts to enhance child health services in Sedibeng District, South Africa. The Window of Opportunity project is a five-year initiative led by PATH, with support from BHP Billiton Sustainable Communities, that focuses on improving the health and development of children younger than two years in South Africa and Mozambique.
Publication date: September 2012
Region: Africa
Part of series: Window of Opportunity project: district profiles
- Senegal: Changing the Face of Immunization in West Africa - Practical Solutions Transform Vaccine Delivery and Injection Safety
Publication date: 2004
Region: Africa
- SRH-HIV Convergence Newsletter (Volume 1, Issue 1)
This document is the first in a series of periodic policy and practice updates about work undertaken by PATH on the convergence of HIV services and sexual and reproductive health services (SRH) in India.
Author: Sellers T, Saha A, Panda M, Pauchauri A
Publication date: April 2006
Region: Asia
Part of series: HIV-SRH Convergence newsletters
- Streamlining Immunization Logistics in the Provinces of Central Java and Yogyakarta, Indonesia
This document describes the Streamlining Immunization Logistics project, implemented between April 2005 and March 2006 in eight districts of Central Java and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This project has demonstrated qualitative improvements in the efficiency of sub-national logistic systems supporting the delivery of immunization services.
Author: Lloyd J
Publication date: 2006
Region: Asia
- Strengthening Health Systems Through Procurement
This two-page fact sheet details the procurement systems strengthening work that PATH has done over two decades in over 30 countries.
Publication date: June 2008
Region: Global
- Strengthening Immunization Services Through Service Delivery Support: The Andhra Pradesh Experience
Publication date: 2006
Region: Asia
- Strengthening National Regulatory Capacity: PATH Supports Countries to Ensure Health Products Are Safe, Effective, and Swiftly Delivered
Global investments to strengthen regulatory capacity in developing countries help ensure desperately needed medical products are delivered, thereby improving health and equipping countries with the expertise and infrastructure to make important health decisions for years to come.
Publication date: July 2012
Region: Global
- Strengthening Private-Sector Involvement in TB and HIV in Vietnam
This factsheet introduces PATH's work in Vietnam to design and implement approaches to working with private-sector providers as a way to increase access to existing TB and HIV case detection, treatment, and prevention services.
Publication date: July 2008
Region: Asia
- Strengthening the Quality of Abortion Services in Vietnam
This fact sheet provides an overview of PATH's work to improve the quality of and access to medical abortion services, including post-abortion family planning, at the district level in Vietnam.
Publication date: March 2013
Region: Asia
- Strengthening the Role of Pharmacies: Building Pharmacists' Capacity as Primary Health Care Providers
This fact sheet describes PATH's work to strengthen the capacity of staff in almost 1,000 pharmacies across Vietnam to deliver primary health care services.
Publication date: August 2012
Region: Asia
- Strengthening Vietnam's immunization program
PATH, in close partnership with Vietnam's National Expanded Program on Immunization (NEPI), has worked to increase the quality, safety, and efficiency of immunization services through the Iris Project. This fact sheet describes the project's process of testing province-wide systems improvements, identifying best practices, and encouraging other provinces to adopt the improvements. Work included updating and improving policies, training staff, and increasing community knowledge and demand for vaccination, particularly through technical updates, training of trainers, an introduction to supportive supervision, an out-of-the-cold-chain study, and an injection safety project with needle removers.
Publication date: 2007
Region: Asia
- Supportive Supervision to Sustain Health Worker Capacity in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and North Sumatera
This document summarizes PATH's work in Indonesia to sustain best practices among health workers in project provinces through a supportive supervision program.
Publication date: April 2008
Region: Global
- Sure Start: Helping Mothers and Newborns Thrive
Sure Start is an initiative intended to catalyze sustainable improvements in maternal and newborn health through effective community action in selected districts of Uttar Pradesh and urban sites of Maharashtra, India. The Sure Start project has been designed to complement and support the Government of India's commitment to improving maternal and newborn health. This fact sheet gives an overall picture and progress of the project to date.
Publication date: July 2009
Region: Asia
Part of series: Sure Start publications
- Tackling Pneumonia and Diarrheal Disease Through Program and Policy Coordination: A Case Study of PATH's Integrated Approach in Cambodia
This case study highlights how PATH's Enhanced Diarrheal Disease Initiative can serve as a model for an integrated advocacy and implementation approach to childhood pneumonia and diarrheal disease, which could be replicated in other districts of Cambodia and other countries across the world. This case study is a comprehensive version of the shorter Saving Children Through Program and Policy Integration.
Publication date: January 2013
Region: Asia
- Temperature Recording System in National Vaccine Stores of Khartoum, Sudan, and Tehran, Iran
Both Iran and Sudan utilize an alarm-based temperature recording system to monitor the performance of their national immunization cold stores. To better the utility and application of such systems in other countries, this project Optimize report documents the benefits, challenges, and advantages of both Iran's and Sudan's systems.
Author: Haghgou, M
Publication date: May 2010
Region: Global
- Thogomelo Project
This project brief describes the Thogomelo project, which is designed to build South Africa's capacity to care for its community caregivers and protect children left vulnerable by the AIDS pandemic.
Publication date: February 2009
Region: Africa
- A Trainer's Guide for a Workshop on Tuberculosis for Pharmacy Staff in Cambodia
This guide is based on widely used global training curricula for pharmacy staff developed and tested by PATH. The guide is intended for distribution to the tuberculosis trainers in Cambodia's municipal health departments, provincial health departments, and operational districts as well as the Pharmacy Association of Cambodia who have attended a trainer of trainers' course. The full guide contains two complete sections: one in Khmer and one in English. It is also available divided into each language.
Publication date: September 2011
Region: Asia
- UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities Technical Reference Team Briefs
The UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children (the Commission) was formed in 2012 by the UN Secretary-General as a part of the Every Woman Every Child movement. The Commission's framework for action outlines a priority list of 13 commodities and 10 cross-cutting recommendations to rapidly increase access and use. To help carry forward the Commission's recommendations at the global and national levels, Global Technical Reference Teams (TRT) were established. One group was formed for each of the 13 commodities and 10 recommendations, and an advocacy working group is dedicated to advancing their cross-cutting goals. The advocacy working group, convened by PATH, developed a series of briefs highlighting the major goals, challenges, and activities of each TRT.
Publication date: July 2013
Region: Global
- US Department of Defense and PATH: Collaborations Enhance Health for the World's Poorest People
This fact sheet describes how PATH and the US Department of Defense (DOD) collaborate to enhance the health of the world's poorest people and presents a sampling of PATH projects that are DOD-funded.
Publication date: April 2013
Region: North America and Europe


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when I compare it with other headsets below the rs.150 range, it stands out like a star.
The lower end is flooded with things the cat brought in, and this product seems like the only live thing in the cat's mouth.
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The CBD target "to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss" was incorporated into the Millennium Development Goals in 2002. Our lack of progress toward the 2010 target could undermine achievement of the MDGs and poverty reduction in the long term. With increasing global challenges, such as population growth, climate change, and overconsumption of ecosystem services, we need further integration of the poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation agendas.
Climate change is expected to alter the distribution of habitats and thus the distribution of species connected with these habitats in the terrestrial Barents Sea region. It was hypothesised that wild species connected with the tundra and open-land biome may be particularly at risk as forest area expands. Fourteen species of birds were identified as useful indicators for the biodiversity dependent upon this biome.Resource Type: Journal Papers
Assessments of forest biodiversity - the diversity within forest species, between species and of forest ecosystems - are essential if forest resources are to be effectively conserved and sustainably managed (Hunter, 1999). Assessments are needed to provide information necessary to support biodiversity-related decision-making in forest policy and management. However, assessment of forest biodiversity presents a number of challenges. First, because of the complexity of biodiversity, information about it needs to be assembled and expressed based on simplified variables, typically in the form of indicators (Noss, 1990, 1999). Second, since decisions relating to forests are made at a variety of scales, biodiversity data and indicators need to be aggregated across different scales for monitoring and reporting purposes (Noss, 1990; Turner, 1995).Resource Type: Journal Papers
The GLOBIO3 model has been developed to assess human-induced changes in biodiversity, in the past, present, and future at regional and global scales. The model is built on simple cause–effect relationships between environmental drivers and biodiversity impacts, based on state-of-the-art knowledge. The mean abundance of original species relative to their abundance in undisturbed ecosystems (MSA) is used as the indicator for biodiversity.Resource Type: Journal Papers
This paper presents a trial of a species population trend indicator for evaluating progress towards the 2010 biodiversity target in Europe, using existing data. The indicator integrates trends on different species (groups), and can be aggregated across habitats and countries. Thus, the indicator can deliver both headline messages for high-level decision-making and detailed information for in-depth analysis, using data from different sources, collected with different methods.Resource Type: Journal Papers
This paper reviews the current global extent of protected areas in terms of geopolitical and habitat coverage, and considers their value as a global indicator of conservation action or response. The paper discusses the role of the World Database on Protected Areas and collection and quality control issues, and identifies areas for improvement, including how conservation effectiveness indicators may be included in the database to improve the value of protected areas data as an indicator for meeting global biodiversity targets.Resource Type: Journal Papers
At the 9th meeting of the SBSTTA of the CBD a recommendation was made to begin testing of five biodiversity indicators in order to measure progress towards the 2010 target. This paper considers one of these indicators for Pan-Europe. The basic principle of the index is to calculate the average trend in abundance of a set of ecosystem-representative species. The index is considered to be generic, i.e. applicable to all ecosystem types including forests. It can produce both headline messages for high-level policy and communication, and detailed information for in-depth analysis. This paper describes the conceptual framework of the index and explores the data availability for the index in Pan-Europe.Resource Type: Journal Papers
This reports looks at the carbon storage function of protected areas as a contribution to the development of strategies for reducing emissions from land use change. In particular, it is relevant to the current discussions surrounding reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).Resource Type: Reports
This study combines the best available data on carbon stocks and deforestation with protected area data to estimate the area of forest loss within the protected area network of the humid tropical forest biome during 2000-2005.Resource Type: Reports
This review focuses on woody bamboos with the highest diversity recorded in the Asia-Pacific region where bamboos play a major role in ecosystem dynamics in many forests.
The genetic diversity of the remaining forest bamboos, of which many are highly susceptible to deforestation, is of great concern and an accurate information base is required as a foundation for policy and management decisions affecting bamboo. A programme to strengthen the Red List assessments of bamboo species status is also needed, one that prioritizes the assessment of species with the smallest estimated geographical ranges and least remaining habitat.Resource Type: Journal Papers
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